At 11:40 AM 18/12/2002 +1100, Philip Warner wrote:
One of the features that is often overlooked when codsidering DBMail is
that you get all the advantages of a *real* database
Sorry...send was hit too soon...
One of the features that is often overlooked when considering DBMail is
that you get all the advantages of a *real* database (at least in the case
of PostgreSQL), so we have:
- aliases & users as views constructed based on a much more complex set of
rules relating to user preferences & settings.
- rewrite rules (updatable views) to handle DBMail setting the last_login date
- stored procedures (callable from PHP, Perl etc) for adding & maintaining
users (basically write the code once, call from anywhere).
- a system of access controls to allow user-management & creation by
authorized users
- complex usage reports and traffic details
- postfix also uses DB, and again the virtuals are a view constructed based
on other business rules.
etc etc.
In some sense, DBMail is the starting point for a much more usable and
functional system of mail handling. You should not just focus on if it will
be faster (although, making sure it won't be slower is important).
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